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RE: Dawkins sparks outrage for saying Down Syndrome babies should be aborted
August 21, 2014 at 3:29 pm
I think it's up to couples to decide on that. I know my girlfriend wouldn't abort a kid because he was an handicap but that's just her. To each his own.
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RE: Dawkins sparks outrage for saying Down Syndrome babies should be aborted
August 21, 2014 at 9:53 pm
First, the idea that a guy who will never have to face the decision on his own should be advising others what decision they should make is silly.
Second, as a public figure, he had to know what sort of stir this sort of comment would raise.
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RE: Dawkins sparks outrage for saying Down Syndrome babies should be aborted
August 21, 2014 at 11:16 pm
I've said it before: Richard Dawkins is kind of a dick...
... doesn't make him wrong.
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RE: Dawkins sparks outrage for saying Down Syndrome babies should be aborted
August 21, 2014 at 11:39 pm
dawkins is a cunt
yes this is true
some atheists aren't so cuntish
yes this is also true
move on
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RE: Dawkins sparks outrage for saying Down Syndrome babies should be aborted
August 22, 2014 at 1:37 am
I recall a certain political leader from the 20th century also being quite fond of eugenics.
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RE: Dawkins sparks outrage for saying Down Syndrome babies should be aborted
August 22, 2014 at 5:52 am
Might be interesting to speculate what Prof Dawkins could have said had he not been limited to 140 characters:
https://richarddawkins.net/2014/08/abort...witterwar/
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